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Mild cognitive impairment and Alzheimer patients display different levels of redox-active CSF iron

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Lavados Montes, Manuel
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Mild cognitive impairment and Alzheimer patients display different levels of redox-active CSF iron
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  • Lavados Montes, Manuel;
  • Guillón Moretti, Marta;
  • Mujica, María Cristina;
  • Rojo, Leonel;
  • Fuentes, Patricio;
  • Maccioni Baraona, Ricardo;
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Oxidative stress constitutes a hallmark of Alzheimer’s disease (AD). Recent studies also point to redox active metals such as iron, copper and zinc in mediating oxidative stress in AD pathogenesis. However, the reactivity of cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) iron and its possible correlation with the severity of cognitive decline in both Alzheimer’s patients and subjects with mild cognitive impairment (MCI) is still unknown. Here we show that different stages of cognitive and functional impairment are associated with changes in CSF reactive iron. In this work, we compared CSF samples from 56 elders, classified into 4 groups according to their scores on the Clinical Dementia Rating scale (CDR). Total CSF iron was analyzed by atomic absorption spectrometry. Redox-active iron was analyzed by a novel fluorimetric assay. One-way ANOVA was used to test differences in mean values, and Newman-Keuls Multiple Comparison Test was used for multi group comparisons. No difference in total CSF iron was found between different groups. Significant amounts of redox-active iron were found in CSF and their levels correlated with the extent of cognitive impairment. Redox-active CSF iron levels increased with the degree of cognitive impairment from normal to MCI subjects, while AD patients showed an abrupt decrease to levels close to zero. Given the relevance of oxidative damage in neurodegeneration, it might be possible to associate the development of cognitive and functional decline with the presence of redox-active iron in the CSF. The decrease in redox-active iron found in AD patients may represent a terminal situation, whereby the central nervous system attempts to minimize iron-associated toxicity.
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This work was supported by the Millennium Institute for Advanced Studies (CBB), the International Center for Biomedicine (ICC) and FONDECYT projects 1050198 (to RBM) and 1010191 (to ML). JTE was supported by MECESUP and CONICYT fellowships from the PhD program in Pharmacology, Universidad de Chile, and by The European Community 5th Framework QLRT-2001-00444 (Nutrient iron toxicity).
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URI: https://repositorio.uchile.cl/handle/2250/119149
ISSN: 1387-2877
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JOURNAL OF ALZHEIMERS DISEASE, Volume: 13, Issue: 2, Pages: 225-232, 2008
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